Steve Cassidy (1992) The First Reading Process: Visual or Phonological? . Psycoloquy: 3(13) Reading (8)
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Psycoloquy 3(13): The First Reading Process: Visual or Phonological?

THE FIRST READING PROCESS: VISUAL OR PHONOLOGICAL?
Reply to Skoyles on Cassidy on Reading

Steve Cassidy
Department of Computer Science
Victoria University
Wellington, New Zealand

steve@srsuna.shlrc.mq.oz.au

Abstract

Skoyles is proposing a procedure which can make an attempt at translating letters to sound. Any such procedure must be learned by the child from examples of print words and their pronunciation. Such learning requires a degree of knowledge about print words and letters which the child is unlikely to have without experience in reading. The relation between phonemic awareness and reading skill is clear but I'm not sure that the direction of influence has been decided. I favour the idea that the two skills feed off each other, as opposed to a straight causal relationship.

Keywords

dyslexia, connectionism, development, error correction, reading.

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